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TANF Section, WIOA Combined Plan Modifications 2026

45 retention services for positions that include CNAs, home health aides, and other personal and health care aides.

Additionally, Wisconsin has a program that requires state agencies with 100 or more full-time equivalent positions to annually prepare and implement a plan to hire W-2 participants. State agencies with fewer employees are encouraged to participate in the program as well. A primary goal of the W-2 employment program is to ensure that W-2 customers are enabled to become economically self-sufficient. Together with DCF, the DOA Division of Performance Management provides resources and support to agencies to recruit, assess, certify and retain W-2 participants. W-2 participants are commonly hired for positions related to providing direct care in a long-term care facility, including positions under the following classification titles: nursing assistant, nurse clinician, resident-care technician, and psychiatric-care technician.

DCF will coordinate with DHS’s Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources and the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) to plan for and help address Wisconsin’s current and ongoing shortage of health care workers for the increasing elder population. The goal of this coordination is to proactively identify geographic movement within Wisconsin of the elder population and the workers who provide health care services, eldercare labor shortage issues, and other eldercare issues. DCF will share this information with W-2 agencies. W-2 agencies are required to keep informed of local economic trends and provide employment services, including job skills training and job development, based on those trends.

(m) MOE-funded Services Provide for all MOE-funded services the following information: the name of the program benefit or service, and the financial eligibility criteria that families must meet in order to receive that benefit or service. In addition, for TANF MOE-funded services (co-mingled or segregated MOE) describe the program benefit provided to eligible families (SSP services do not have to include a description but the Department of Health and Human Services encourages it) (§263.2(b)(3)& §263.2(c) preamble pages 17826-7).

Please see Appendix 1 for this information.

TANF Certifications

Wisconsin will operate a program to provide TANF: so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives; to end dependence of needy parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage; to prevent and reduce the incidence of “out-of-wedlock” pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. This program generally is known as Wisconsin Works (W-2).

States that include TANF in the Combined State Plan must provide a certification by the chief executive officer of that State, that during the fiscal year, the State will: